the early writings, which were disparaged by his Party and which he had himself abjured

Suspense, shocks, surprises are mostly abjured in favor of a steady, inexorable plot.

Localism, in all its forms, represents an attempt to abjure the problems and politics of scale involved in large systems such as the global economy, politics and the environment.

a decision to abjure finding out more

abjure the temptation to tie in one's moral responsibilities to other people with one's relation to whatever idiosyncratic things or persons one loves with all one's heart and soul and mind

He is in a mood of wry abjuration

Abjuring friendship, Linda had plowed through the English major requirements in two years.

I urge your watchers, your seminar attendees, to abjure this habit

We can abjure the complicity demanded of us

The United Nations and its democratization became the proxi­mate goals of NAM, which had therefore abjured any attempt to over­throw, or even jujitsu, both superpowers.

challenged the new states to abjure the divisive techniques of colonial administrators as well as transform cultural differences from a liability to an asset

Contemporary attempts to revive the communist hypothesis typically abjure state control and look to other forms of collective social organisation to displace market forces and capital accumulation as the basis for organising production and distribution

It is middle-class European Americans who currently abjure the use of spankings and who favor instead the use of time-outs.

we have to be careful while doing so not to abjure the very sense of agency that we would need to sustain such a revolt

Intertwined with the abjuration of the body in Bresson’s films is the vexing problem of suicide: If the body enslaves the soul, why not destroy the body and be free?

the country had abjured all available weapons for combating recession

What’s less well understood is why so many others took the opportunity to abjure some of Marxism’s most hallowed principles